More New Art

I’ve been spending most of my waking hours, and some of the hours that I’m supposed to be sleeping, on some new work. The piece I posted last week was the second one. I’ve posted all four below, in order of completion.

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Fukuoka Earthquake, March 20

Yesterday was our first earthquake experience since coming to Japan more than a year-and-a-half ago. We were enjoying a lazy Sunday morning—Jarrod and I were playing Yu-Gi-Oh, a Japanese card duelling game. Lia joined us on Jarrod’s futon when the shaking started, since Jarrod’s room had the smallest shelves and was therefore the safest. We huddled together until the shaking stopped, and then waited a bit longer.

The quake shook some books off our shelves but there wasn’t any noticeable damage. The aftershocks, which continued into the evening, were quite disconcerting.

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